Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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